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Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-09-10
Name of library or information center:
Wisconsin Department of Transportation Library
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Is your information center a member of a Transportation Knowledge Network?:
MTKN
Do you provide access to your information collection to the general public (either on-site or on-line, with or without a fee)?:
Yes
Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
Reference material is lent on a case-by-case basis. The general public may borrow from the collection if they first submit an interlibrary request through their local public or academic library
Provide a description of your information collection:
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Library is a service-oriented facility serving the general public, WisDOT employees, students, consultants, transportation practitioners and other research-oriented professionals of others disciplines interested in the area of transportation. The WisDOT Library houses a specialized and technical research collection covering all facets of planning, engineering, construction, safety, maintenance and evaluation for all transportation modes--highways, pedestrian and bicycle, police science, motor vehicles, rail, transit, aeronautics and water resources. The Library collection also includes information on, environmental issues, geographic information systems, project and business management, quality improvement, computer training and employee wellness issues.
The WisDOT Library is conveniently located in the first floor lobby of the Hill Farms State Transportation Building and offers computer terminals with Internet access, scanning, copying and faxing services to the general public as well as state employees.
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
Transportation planning, engineering, forecasting, safety, as well as road construction and maintenance. The WisDOT Library also features significant collections in the area of police science, Wisconsin transportation history, environment, land use, business and project management, wellness issues and computer training.
# Professional Staff:
1.5
# Support Staff :
0.5
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
John Cherney
Address:
4802 Sheboygan Avenue Room 100A ,
City:
Madison
State:
WI
Zip:
53707
Country:
USA
Mailing Address (if different):
Main phone:
608-264-8142
Fax Number:
608-261-6306
Main email:
library@dot.wi.gov; john.cherney@dot.wi.gov
Website:
http://dot.wi.gov/library/
Do you provide online training courses?:
Do you provide onsite training courses?:
Do you maintain a knowledge base of lessons learned or best practices?:
Do you maintain a directory of experts or provide referrals to experts as part of your services?:
Are any of your training materials catalogued into OCLC?:
If you are affiliated with a library, please provide its name:
What types of data sets do you provide?: We gather internal data sets and provide them via FTP transfer
What export formats do you offer?: We offer most formats
What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:
Organization Type:State DOT
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
17000
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
125
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
30000
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
500
Microfiche/microfilm items:
50
Photographs or image files:
3000
Videotapes and CDs:
400
Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
Does your staff have access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either directly or through your parent organization?:
No
Do you offer your patrons access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either remotely or within your library?:
No
Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
1969
What days and hours are library services provided?:
8:30 to 5:00, M-F
If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
Brochures published occasionally; internal and external Web sites (URL: http://dot.wi.gov/library)
OCLC Code (if applicable):
WOY
What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:
80%
With which OCLC Groups is your library affiliated?:
Wisconsin Interlibrary Services (WILS)
Please list names of other library consortia or networks to which your library belongs:
LVIS, MTKN
Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
Yes
Do you lend through OCLC?:
Yes
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
http://dot.wi.gov/library/services/policies.htm#ill
What fees do you charge for lending?:
None
What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
None
What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
None
Library Resources and Facilities
What is your library’s approximate annual budget – excluding staffing and facilities costs?:
What is your library’s primary funding source?:
Government funding
Does your library have access to conference/meeting space?:
Yes
Do you offer use of computers with internet access to your users?:
Yes
Do you have access to digitization and OCR hardware/software?:
Yes
What specialized software do you have access to? (e.g. web publishing, desktop publishing, multimedia):
Various Web development, desktop publishing and scanning software.
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
Transportation Research Board - all series
Southeast Regional Planning Commission reports
Traffic crash facts from most of the 50 states
Most AASHTO and FHWA publications
Some ITE standard publications
Most AASHTO standards and specificatiosn
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
WOY
Catalog Type:
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
Agent (Wisconsin Catalog)
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Yes
Please provide a link to your catalog:
http://www.wiscat.net/agent/login.asp?cid=stwi&lid=WOYA&mode=g
Staff person name :
John J. Cherney
Staff person title:
Head Librarian
Staff person phone:
608-264-8142
Staff person email:
john.cherney@dot.wi.gov
Full or Part Time:
Expertise:
Reference
Information Architecture
Physical or Digital Preservation
Circulation/ILL
Acquisitions
Collection Development
Cataloging
Systems/Network Management
Database Management
Web 2.0/3.0
Archives/Special Collections
Imaging
Administration/Management
Languages:
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